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...Kay Kyser, still sashaying around the bandstand and giggling at the studio audience, celebrated his tenth anniversary on the air. "Life is so daily with me," he cackled, "that I haven't had time to think about what has happened. But now that you mention it, I'm thilled the public has been able to stand me so long...
Last week, in "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom's big saloon on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard, Kay, now 25, was singing with a new kind of voice. Howling down the horns had given her a husky growl on the blues-but she still had a sweet, sandpapered tone left for the ballads. And Kay, who was born on an Oklahoma Indian reservation (she is a mixture of Irish, Iroquois, Cherokee and Choctaw), was beginning to look like a girl the U.S. would soon be hearing about. Her record of I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town has already sold...
Just how fast Kay can rise to popularity will depend a lot on James Caesar Petrillo (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The songs of hers that Capitol stored away were largely what were handed to her. The pick of what new tunes were around had already gone to Stafford, Whiting and Lee; Kay got the scraps...
...Kay is too much of a trouper to complain about that. Besides, she was free to sing old songs, which have a way of turning out to be hits these days. Kay's formula is simple: "If a tune is comfortable . . . if it feels good, I sing...
Born. To James King Kern ("Kay") Kyser, 42, Tarheel bandleader, and Georgia Carroll Kyser, 28, ex-Powers model, Kyser vocalist: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Carroll Amanda. Weight...